Forgotten Tournament of 1967
In 1967, the International Weightlifting Federation didn’t run the World Championship. It does look odd for those who like a consistent flow of events in the history books. The 1966 World Championship was held...
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Where In the World Is Bulgarian Olympic Weightlifting
Bulgarian Olympic weightlifting went through a long history of climbing to the top of international sports from the 1970s and 1980s and then through a rapid and painful downfall due to a series of...
Ready To Go To the World Championship
They are ready to go to the Worlds in Stockholm Here is an interesting photo from the good old Strength and Health magazine published by Bob Hoffman. This is Team USA 1958 posing for...
Beware Retest
Due to the outstanding scientific development of analysis technologies since the 2008 and the 2012 Olympic Games, the IOC decided to reanalyze samples from the 2008 Beijing and the 2012 London Olympic Games based on its...
Russian and American Friendly and Happy in Paris
70 years ago in Paris Time flies. Sometimes faster than we want. Time brings us new trends and politics. New heroes and new anti-heroes. The left photo shows Stanley Stamczyk (USA), Grigory Novak (USSR)...
From the Founders of the Soviet Sport
The original photo was taken at the 1st National Meeting of the Soviet Sports leadership in April 1924. Nikolay Semashko, the Chairman of the Supreme Committee of the Soviet Sport and the National Commissar of Public...
Soviet Students in Berlin, 1951
The Lift Up project continues its historical research of the past of Olympic weightlifting. There is plenty of work ahead on restoring the statistics and visual artifacts from the history of this sport in...
Lift Up: What’s Next
With the Summer Olympics in Rio and the “dopingate” scandals, we’ve received many comments and requests about the Lift Up project. For those who are new to the project, Lift Up is an online...
The Voice of Olympic Weightlifting
My coach competed in Olympic weightlifting back in the 1950s. The world of Olympic weightlifting was much smaller in those times and everybody knew each other pretty well. It was my coach who was...
1979
Blast from the past, as they say… I am a junior in my school in Moscow. Lifting in the featherweight class (60 kg /132 lbs) at the time. Seems like yesterday and 300 years...
